This Is Biology: The Science of the Living World
by Mayr, Ernst (signed)
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 067488468X
- ISBN 13
- 9780674884687
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About This Item
Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press / Harvard, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Inscribed on the title page: "For Susan, with best wishes, Ernst Mayr." Uncommon signed. Mayr is among the giants of evolutionary biology, known especially for establishing that a species is a group of animals that can only breed among themselves as the result of isolation and ensuing genetic drift. It was a crucial development to evolutionary theory, explaining the mechanism behind new speciation--something Darwin did not arrive at. But Mayr was also a philosopher of biology and a historian of science, and this late book is in that vein. As the jacket says, it "offer[s] a vision of science that places biology firmly at the center, and a vision of biology that restores the primacy of holistic, evolutionary thinking" and "maps out the territorial overlap between biology and humanities, especially history and ethics." Blurbs by Stephen Jay Gould (whose important theory of punctuated equilibrium stemmed from Mayr's theory), E.O. Wilson, Frans De Waal, and James D. Watson among others.
Green paper boards with a dark green spine and gold lettering. Fine in a fine jacket.
Green paper boards with a dark green spine and gold lettering. Fine in a fine jacket.
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- Title
- This Is Biology: The Science of the Living World
- Author
- Mayr, Ernst (signed)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 067488468X
- ISBN 13
- 9780674884687
- Publisher
- Belknap Press / Harvard
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge, MA
- Date Published
- 1997
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